Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chairman Bob


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep.  — fetch ·  comms   02:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Chairman Bob

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This is so vague and general. It's only purpose has been to redirect to Roundy's. This phrase is also being used in a demeaning and libellous manner by a vandal on Bob Avakian. As such there is no encyclopedic value in this "article". Peopleriseup (talk) 04:29, 6 August 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A Wisconsinite here who can explain things; "Chairman Bob" is a 'character' in advertising for Roundy's Pick 'n Save stores who is the actual CEO (and chairman) of Roundy's, Robert Mariano, thus the "Chairman Bob" series of ads, which was meant as an affectionate parody and not at all as you thought as an insult against him (which without the background story would have seemed like it). However the campaign has been over for a year and the only use of it remains as pretty much as a denoter of their generic Roundy's brand products within their stores, and there has been no further establishment of notability of the ad campaign. This can safely be deleted without any consequence.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 08:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Notability would only count if we were discussing having a whole article here. In fact, no-one is.  Indeed, this whole discussion is mis-placed and really belongs at Redirects for discussion, since there is no, and has never been any, actual article here. Uncle G (talk) 16:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I was going by a whole battle over the direction of a redirect and that there was an existing article, but you're right, this is just a very overreactive nomination as there was no issue at all with an Avakian redirection (it was only brought up by Peopleriseup as part of the misunderstanding I listed above and the RD has just been blanked, not redirected to Avakian). Based on that, Keep as a harmless redirect and a reminder to Peopleriseup that dicussion on a talk page or a friendly reachout to the redirect creator is better for the next time.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 08:16, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral - Normally I would say keep it as a search term, but there's very little in the Roundy's article about him. I suppose if someone thought it was notable enough to mention the ad campaign in the Roundy's article, I would say keep. As it stands I don't see that it's doing any harm, though. As a side note, when I lived in Madison, I found that Roundy's "Chairman Bob approved" potato chips were terrible. P. D. Cook  Talk to me! 13:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per the above discussion. I wondered why this wasn't at RfD, but I figured I just wasn't in the know. Now that I understand the backstory, I don't see any reason why this redirect is harmful, so default to keep. P. D. Cook  Talk to me! 01:56, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a verifiable fact. Uncle G (talk) 16:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, they could use more salt for sure.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 08:19, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.